What Pol Pot and Mao did are natural consequences of these ideas. The communist ideas themselves are a promise that if you jump off a roof and start waving you

What Pol Pot and Mao did are natural consequences of these ideas. The communist ideas themselves are a promise that if you jump off a roof and start waving your hands really hard, you'll fly. Intelligent people drive their conclusions on empirical data instead of theories, but you're absolutely right about the majority.